Web Site Privacy Statement
Last updated September 13, 2009
Long Hill Baptist Church values your trust and your privacy. Please read this web site privacy statement.
Information Collection & Use
LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH is the sole owner of the information collected on LHBAPTIST.COM. LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Uses of Information
LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH uses contact information collected from LHBAPTIST.COM for the purpose of contacting you via e-mail, postal mail and telephone.
Your may contact us at hammond.robert@gmail.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Communications from the Site Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on upcoming activities. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page. Out of respect for your privacy, you may contact us at LONGHBC@JUNO.COM to request that we not send information regarding upcoming activities.
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we may send you a welcoming email. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries and provide the services you request. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We may store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences. We do not tie your personally identifiable information to information in the profile.
We may share your profile with other third parties exclusivley for the purpose of operating LHBAPTIST.com and/or for sending your information related to LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources. For example, we may use a third-party online database to verify or complete your mailing address or telephone number.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We may purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Personally identifiable information:
We may share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties for the purpose of operating LHBAPTIST.COM and/or sending communications to you. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use Squarespace Inc. to host LHBAPTIST.COM. When you use LHBAPTIST.com we will share any information collected from you as necessary for the Squarespace Inc to provide LHBAPTIST.COM.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you request information from LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH but do not wish to receive any additional communication from us, you can indicate your preference by sending e-mail to hammond.robert@gmail.com.
If you no longer wish to receive our promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by emailing us at hammond.robert@gmail.com. You may contact us at 203.268.5104, hammond.robert@gmail.com or Long Hill Baptist Church, 100 Middlebrooks Avenue, Trumbull, CT 06611to opt-out.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
We use a third-party tracking service GOOGLE ANALYTICS to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We may use both session ID cookies [and/or] persistent cookies. We may use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, may be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., Google, BibleGateway.com) may use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other third-party entities that provide content, functionality or other services that are delivered within LHBAPTIST.COM.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We may employ [or our third party advertising partner may employ] a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
We may use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH. Please be aware that we, LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. Link to other web sites at your own risk.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by by emailing us at HAMMOND.ROBERT@GMAIL.COM or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at HAMMOND.ROBERT@GMAIL.COM.
Business Transitions
In the event LONG HILL BAPTIST CHURCH goes through a business transition, such as a merger with another church or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email or by prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Long Hill Baptist Church
100 Middlebrooks Avenue
Trumbull, CT 06611